Assistant Public Works Director - Engineering (20775249)

Description

THE DEPARTMENT

The Public Works Department consists of approximately 73 full-time employees and is responsible for maintaining and improving the city's streets, parks, water and stormwater systems, traffic signals, trees, fleet and public buildings. The Department's organizational structure includes four divisions: Engineering, Transportation, Maintenance and Business Services.

The Department provides many of the basic services affecting the daily lives of everyone living, working, visiting, and commuting within the City of Menlo Park and manages the following:

• 26 City-owned buildings/facilities and their grounds
• A fleet of over 250 vehicles and pieces of equipment
• 97 miles of streets
• Drinking water delivery for 16,000 customers
• Flood protection and stormwater management programs particularly along the San Francisco Bay, San Francisquito Creek and Atherton Channel
• 14 parks, 2 open spaces, 14 playgrounds, 2 dog parks, 9 sports fields, and 14 tennis/pickleball courts
• Efforts to preserve and expand the urban canopy, including 20,000 public trees
• Multimodal transportation services including 42 traffic signals, safe routes to schools and citywide shuttle programs.

The Department has a $40 million operating budget supported by over 25 different special/dedicated funding sources for the varied programs and services provided to the community. In addition, the City has an approximately $100 million capital program, in part due to a successful track record in pursuing grants from a variety of local, state and federal sources.

Some of the exciting efforts on the horizon include efforts to protect the San Francisco Bay shoreline and adjacent community from sea level rise; efforts to eliminate the City's reliance on fossil fuels through building and fleet electrification; making investments in transportation safety through strategic quick-build projects and large infrastructure changes like a pedestrian/bicycle undercrossing at Caltrain; and ensuring the equitable delivery of services throughout the entire city in alignment with the goals and programs developed as part of the city's first environmental justice element underway.

THE POSITION

The Assistant Public Works Director - Engineering is one of three Assistant Director classifications in the Public Works Department and reports directly to the Public Works Director. This position has oversight of the Engineering Division, which plans and executes the City's capital improvement program and is responsible for the review of development projects for compliance with city standards, ordinances, permits, regulations, and statutes.